Anonymous
05/02/2025 20:54
Subject: Re:why are Sidwell results so much better than other DC privates this year?
This is a quality troll post.
Anonymous
05/02/2025 20:22
Subject: why are Sidwell results so much better than other DC privates this year?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Sidwell is sending 38/90 posted kids to top20 schools. 42%!
NCS is sending 17/81 girls from those posted and a few yet to post. 21%. It's not for lack of trying--my DC knows quite a number of girls who were shut out from Ivies and all top20s with 3.8-3.95 GPAs.
GDS is 23/110. Also 21%.
Why is Sidwell at literally twice the percentage? It doesn't seem to be athletes..
Is a 3.85 from Sidwell viewed as so much stronger than a 3.85 from NCS or GDS?
College counseling better?
What gives?
Just curious. My DC is on deck for next year.
Yes. This was a tough year for NCS.
No, this was not a tough year, it was an impressive one. All the results are not posted.
Anonymous
05/02/2025 20:17
Subject: why are Sidwell results so much better than other DC privates this year?
OP's calculations were based on the term "top20 schools" and I'm simply trying to understand which schools count and which ones don't.
Anonymous
05/02/2025 19:53
Subject: why are Sidwell results so much better than other DC privates this year?
Anonymous wrote:So you're saying that CMU, Michigan, WashU, Emory, and Georgetown don't count, but Hamilton, Wesleyan, Grinnell, Middlebury, and W&L do?
I don’t know what you’re talking about. There are multiple people posting here.
Anonymous
05/02/2025 19:50
Subject: why are Sidwell results so much better than other DC privates this year?
So you're saying that CMU, Michigan, WashU, Emory, and Georgetown don't count, but Hamilton, Wesleyan, Grinnell, Middlebury, and W&L do?
Anonymous
05/02/2025 19:27
Subject: why are Sidwell results so much better than other DC privates this year?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:top20 schools
Which LACs (if any) "count" in your definition of the above and calculations?
The T20 SLACs, according to USN&WR.
T20 is T20.
Anonymous
05/02/2025 19:12
Subject: why are Sidwell results so much better than other DC privates this year?
Anonymous wrote:Because it is the best high school in the area and the top colleges all know accepting kids from Sidwell is low risk
+1
Anonymous
05/02/2025 18:55
Subject: why are Sidwell results so much better than other DC privates this year?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:One factor could be that girls have a harder time in admissions because there are more high achieving girls. So girls’ schools are at a disadvantage relative to coed schools.
Except women comprise a higher percentage of acceptances/matriculation at most of the top schools, so that doesn't really hold.
There are 20 qualified female applicants for every 1 qualified male applicant.
Anonymous
05/02/2025 18:54
Subject: why are Sidwell results so much better than other DC privates this year?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Sidwell is sending 38/90 posted kids to top20 schools. 42%!
NCS is sending 17/81 girls from those posted and a few yet to post. 21%. It's not for lack of trying--my DC knows quite a number of girls who were shut out from Ivies and all top20s with 3.8-3.95 GPAs.
GDS is 23/110. Also 21%.
Why is Sidwell at literally twice the percentage? It doesn't seem to be athletes..
Is a 3.85 from Sidwell viewed as so much stronger than a 3.85 from NCS or GDS?
College counseling better?
What gives?
Just curious. My DC is on deck for next year.
Gds has a much higher percentage of students reporting. The Sidwell students not going to top 20 schools could be less likely to report than the equivalent students at gds because of differences in school culture.
There is actually a higher percentage of SFS seniors reporting on instagram than in recent years...and there are plenty of kids who don't report who are going to "top" schools.
It's still less than the current GDS numbers, which makes your numbers and conclusion suspect.
Anonymous
05/02/2025 18:51
Subject: why are Sidwell results so much better than other DC privates this year?
Anonymous wrote:top20 schools
Which LACs (if any) "count" in your definition of the above and calculations?
Anonymous
05/02/2025 18:08
Subject: why are Sidwell results so much better than other DC privates this year?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Sidwell is sending 38/90 posted kids to top20 schools. 42%!
NCS is sending 17/81 girls from those posted and a few yet to post. 21%. It's not for lack of trying--my DC knows quite a number of girls who were shut out from Ivies and all top20s with 3.8-3.95 GPAs.
GDS is 23/110. Also 21%.
Why is Sidwell at literally twice the percentage? It doesn't seem to be athletes..
Is a 3.85 from Sidwell viewed as so much stronger than a 3.85 from NCS or GDS?
College counseling better?
What gives?
Just curious. My DC is on deck for next year.
Gds has a much higher percentage of students reporting. The Sidwell students not going to top 20 schools could be less likely to report than the equivalent students at gds because of differences in school culture.
There is actually a higher percentage of SFS seniors reporting on instagram than in recent years...and there are plenty of kids who don't report who are going to "top" schools.
Last two years, they had 96 and 104 students post and right now they’re at 90. Kids don’t post at every school, there’s not really any proof that the stats for those kids are better than what’s being posted on average since schools don’t release matriculation lists to the public.
Anonymous
05/02/2025 18:01
Subject: why are Sidwell results so much better than other DC privates this year?
Anonymous wrote:One factor could be that girls have a harder time in admissions because there are more high achieving girls. So girls’ schools are at a disadvantage relative to coed schools.
This is a good point
Anonymous
05/02/2025 17:07
Subject: why are Sidwell results so much better than other DC privates this year?
Anonymous wrote:What are the “top 20” schools you are basing this off?
Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Columbia, Dartmouth, Brown, Cornell, Penn, Stanford, Duke, UChicago, MIT, Johns Hopkins, Cal Tech, Northwestern are pretty set in stone but the rest is highly dependent and could skew your findings
I would add UCLA, Cal, UVA, Michigan, Carnegie Mellon, Vanderbilt, and Washington University to that list.
Btw, there are c/o 2025 Sidwell students who are going to Harvard, Carnegie Mellon, and Michigan (and top 10-15 SLACS) who did not post on IG.
Anonymous
05/02/2025 17:02
Subject: why are Sidwell results so much better than other DC privates this year?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:One factor could be that girls have a harder time in admissions because there are more high achieving girls. So girls’ schools are at a disadvantage relative to coed schools.
Except women comprise a higher percentage of acceptances/matriculation at most of the top schools, so that doesn't really hold.
I have been looking at the CDS for schools my kid is interested in. Women make up a bigger percentage of students at most schools but they are admitted at slightly lower rates for many. For example Swat admits 8.2% of male applicants, 6% of female ones. Brown is 6.7% of males, 4.2% female. Dartmouth and Georgetown also admit slightly higher percentages of guys.
If girls are stronger candidates as a pool, the selectivity effect would be intensified.
Anonymous
05/02/2025 16:50
Subject: why are Sidwell results so much better than other DC privates this year?
Anonymous wrote:One factor could be that girls have a harder time in admissions because there are more high achieving girls. So girls’ schools are at a disadvantage relative to coed schools.
Except women comprise a higher percentage of acceptances/matriculation at most of the top schools, so that doesn't really hold.